From the book

From the book

Mixing colors with a photograph

Earlier, you mixed colors with a white background and with each other. Now, you’ll use a photograph as your canvas, adding
colors and mixing them with each other and with the background colors to transform a photograph of a landscape into a watercolor.

Choose File > Open. Double-click the 11Landscape_Start.jpg file in the Lesson11 folder to open it.

Select a darker blue color (we used R=103, G=151, B=212), and add darker color at the top of the sky, still using the dry
brush.

Select a light blue color again, and choose Very Wet, Heavy Mix from the pop-up menu in the options bar. Use this brush to
scrub diagonally across the sky, blending the two colors in with the background color. Paint in close to the trees, and smooth
out the entire sky.

Sample a light green, and then use a dry brush to highlight the lighter areas of the trees and the small tree in the middle
of the landscape. Then select a dark green (we used R=26, G=79, B=34), and choose Very Wet, Heavy Mix in the options bar.
Paint with the wet brush to mix together the colors in the trees.

So far, so good. The background trees and the brown grasses are all that remain to be painted.

Select a bluer color for the background trees (we used R=65, G=91, B=116). Paint with a dry brush to add the blue at the top.
Then choose Wet in the options bar, and paint to mix the blue into the trees.

Sample a brown color from the tall grasses, and then select Very Wet, Heavy Mix in the options bar. Paint along the top of
the tall grass with up-and-down strokes for the look of a field. Across the back area, behind the small center tree, paint
back and forth to create smooth strokes.